'Daily Voting News' For December 06, 2007

 

For election watchers there will be a special congressional election next week in northwest Ohio. There will also be another congressional election in Virginia at the same time. In the Virginia election voters are being given their choice between DRE or paper ballots.

 

Goshen New York held an election on a $70M school bond issue and brought out two lever machines to count the votes. As the counters on both machines hit 999, they each rolled back to 000 like an overused car odometer. The question that will never be answered is, for which side were those 1,998 votes cast?

 

NAtional: U.S. Voter Confidence Is Linked To Positive Voter Experience, According To New Colorado State Study

http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=151674799

 

NAtional: Voter confidence linked to positive voter experience

http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/2091/2/

 

AZ: Pima County - Election Integrity on Trial in Pima County: Day Two Summary

A Courtroom Report as Pima County Democrats Seek Public Records Access to Diebold Election Databases

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5408

 

CA: San Francisco - S.F. supervisors' panel backs Sequoia voting machines

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/06/BAQ5TOSG7.DTL

 

CA: San Francisco – SF still counting votes from November election

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=5816860

 

CA: San Francisco’s Final Election Results Delayed Again

http://www.kcbs.com/pages/1291046.php?

 

CA: San Francisco - Supes near voting machine contract

http://www.examiner.com/a-1089242~New_voting_machine_contract_endorsed_by_committee.html

 

CT: Advantages of new voting machines uncertain

http://www.thestamfordtimes.com/stamford_templates/stamford_story/377790733646964.php

 

MO: Indiana Voter ID case gets close attention in Missouri

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/jomannies/story/F0432C909EC98CAF862573A90016E52B?OpenDocument

 

NJ: Paper record deadline extended to June 2008: Audit bill to count random election results approved

http://www.montclairtimes.com/page.php?page=16365

 

NJ: Integrity of voting machines questioned

SCI criticizes no-bid purchasing by counties

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1196921922274910.xml&coll=1

 

NJ: Report: Voting machines 'vulnerable to abuse'

http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/NEWS01/712060398/1006/news01

 

NJ: Voting Machines Vulnerable?

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MDcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcyMzAyNDcmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky

 

NJ: Poll turnout in state one of the lowest

http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/NEWS01/712060406/1006

 

NY: Elections Official Wants to Help Troops at War Vote

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/nyregion/06register.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

 

NY: Goshen - Results of Goshen school vote on $70M bond are lost forever

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/NEWS/712060317/-1/rss01/gnews

 

OH: State hopes vote counting fixed for special Congressional race

http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=7456877

 

OH: Knox County - Board recounts votes from election

http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/07/12/06/elc.recount.html

 

TX: Milam County - Viewpoint: Electronic voting machines should be banned

http://www.cameronherald.com/articles/2007/12/06/news/opinion/column.txt

 

VA: Paper ballots an option for Dec. election

http://www.staffordcountysun.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=SCS/MGArticle/SCS_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173353759111&path=

 

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